“My students are obedient”, explained the Director of a well-known B-school that I recently visited for a campus recruitment initiative. She spoke in the context of students living up to the expectations of the industry by doing what is expected of them. It sounded strange to me and indicated a widening gap in what the […]
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The Benefits of Revisiting Your Internal Communication Priorities
This month I caught up with my team at Chicago and we stepped back to re-chart our goals and focus areas for the year and beyond. To me it meant unlearning and looking at our stakeholders from a different lens altogether. Personally this meeting taught me a few pointers on structuring a team’s strategy for […]
Thinking of a Career in Internal Communications?
I wanted to pen down my thoughts on the evolving internal communications function based on numerous queries that have come my way from students, practicing professionals and educationists. This post also articulates the role of the internal communicator, key skills and competencies needed to excel in this field and the various career opportunities that exist. Internal […]
Building visibility and branding for internal teams
This was a rare request – a team lead approached me to share ideas on building an ‘internal brand and image’ for his team. The team responsible for the critical human resources management, performance and employee practices was in the midst of a churn and this manager had come on board to steady the ship. […]
Are you justifying your existence as a communication professional?
The recession can surely make communicators sweat! It also seems to be making communicators revisit their purpose and justify their existence. A mail from a fellow communicator in India pointed to just that – it read ‘we are gauging the span of the Corporate Communication and roles vis-a-vis number of employees. It’s going to hopefully […]